A beautiful getaway located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia that is perfect for anyone needing a vacation from the business of life.

Nestled next to Kiptopeke State Park offering Boat Ramps, a beautiful beach, Hiking Trails that connects you to the National Wildlife Refuge. There you will enjoy the Wildlife Nature Center and Nature Trails.

Use one of Almost Paradise's many bikes to enter the park free and enjoy it's many amenities!

For a fulfilling, relaxing and luxurious vacation, you cannot do better than vacationing at the ALMOST PARADISE Vacation Rental home. Enjoy its many amenities including a large, state-of-the-art SWIMMING POOL that is very well managed. Relax on the deck overlooking the pool and the spacious backyard, perfect for volleyball, badminton, etc. Drive seconds just down the street to Virginia’s Premier Waterfront Kiptopeke Beach State Park on the Chesapeake Bay on Virginia’s Scenic Eastern Shore. There is so much to do at the Park, including a broad, sandy beach, swimming, boat ramp, fishing and crabbing pier, bird watching and hawk observatory, nature trail hiking, children's programs, bike trails and more. You'll easily understand why Kiptopeke Beach State Park is called the "Jewel in the Crown" of the extensive Virginia State Park System.

The ALMOST PARADISE Vacation Rental home is simply a luxurious first-class Vacation Retreat. The vibrant, beautiful hickory floors and cabinetry of this genuine Cedar and Pine Home with its high ceilings create a bright, cheerful, light filled interior. The large bedrooms have King beds with high quality mattresses and their own bathrooms, TVs, surround sound speakers, and they open on to spacious outside decks that surround the home on 3 sides. Kids have their own hide-away with a bunk bed and two single beds far away from the other bedrooms. In great room there is also a pull-out sofa that sleeps two.

ALMOST PARADISE is a vacation in itself. It has a spacious theater room with its 70" HD plasma TV with a dynamite surround sound system, and a refrigerator. The billiard area has an 8 ft. slate pool table. And the in-ground Swimming Pool at ALMOST PARADISE are both top of the line and are meticulously maintained in between each tenant. The pool has an automatic cover for your safety and cleanliness. The meticulously maintained yard is fenced and surrounded by beautiful evergreens, and it is a great place to picnic, play horse shoes, volley ball, etc.

The 2nd floor kitchen of ALMOST PARADISE has everything you need to cook a gourmet meal—all kinds of kitchen equipment, coffee pot, four-slot toaster, crab pot, microwave oven, cook top, oven, refrigerator and dishwasher. Open to the kitchen is a spacious great room which features a gas log fireplace, a bar with bar stools, an 8 person dining table, high chair, pack n play, remote control surround sound stereo and a 52" plasma HD TV.

The nice laundry room has a commercial washer/dryer purchased in the Fall of 2018. Boaters will find plenty of parking space for their vehicles and boat trailers at ALMOST PARADISE, and they have nearby access to really great, deep water boat ramps at Kiptopeake Beach State Park where they can put in and boat the Chesapeake Bay or boat around the tip of the Eastern Shore and boat the Atlantic Ocean. Fishing guides are also available.

A Bicycle path leads to Kiptopeake Park where there are so many things to do. Sun bathe on the sandy beaches there and swim in the Chesapeake Bay. Fish or crab from the long pier. By all means hike the scenic Bayside nature trails. Participate in the many birding programs there and enjoy the infinite variety of birds flying down one of the Nation’s major flyways and through the Park. And Children can participate in the Parks nature programs specially designed for Children.

Could anyone wish for more for their Vacation than ALMOST PARADISE ?

Close to ALMOST PARADISE, on the Seaside, is the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge, which has a fascinating Visitor’s Center, emphasizing the Shore’s Flora and Fauna and the Shore’s way of life. The Refuge itself has much to see, including a huge gun from the Battleship Missouri (on which Japan surrendered) mounted in an old Bunker that once had these huge guns protecting the mouth of the Bay during World War II.

Guests of ALMOST PARADISE also have easy day-trips available to them. A little over an hour to the North, guests can visit NASA’s Wallops Visitor’s Center and Chincoteague and the Assateague Island National Seashore (U.S. National Park) with its wild ponies, lots of other wildlife and Atlantic Ocean Beaches. To the South across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, Virginia Beach, with all its Oceanfront attractions, is a little less than an hour from ALMOST PARADISE, and the Bush Gardens Theme Park is about two hours away as is Virginia’s Historic Triangle of Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown.